Students will use their research skills to address the following Kansas Standards
1. What were the critical factors to be considered when planning a voyage of exploration?
2. How did exploration and expansion affect the rights and responsibilities of people?
3. How did ideas about isolationism and expansion affect nations and history?
4. How did the cultural interaction and diffusion of the period impact various global regions?
5. What kind of geographic factors impact exploration and expansion?
2. How did exploration and expansion affect the rights and responsibilities of people?
3. How did ideas about isolationism and expansion affect nations and history?
4. How did the cultural interaction and diffusion of the period impact various global regions?
5. What kind of geographic factors impact exploration and expansion?
Ideas
Columbian Exchange, mercantilism, capitalism, triangular trade, Atlantic Slave trade, gunpowder empire, Islam, Buddhism
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People/Roles
Columbus, conquistadors, Bartolome de las Casas, Aztecs, Incas, Suleyman the Magnificent, Akbar the Great, Zheng He, Qianlog, Samurai
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Places/Institutions
Spain, Portugal, the Americas, Tenochtitian, Africa, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Taj Mahal
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Events
Circumnavagation, Treaty of Tordesillas, Middle Passage, fall of Constantinople, Ming voyages, Qing Dynasty, Tokugawa Shogunate, Manila galleons
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